出版社：Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research (MCSER)
摘要：This writing concerns a need to know how far the implication of defining Indonesian literature by basing it on the language used is on literary study in Indonesia in relation with the function of literature as agent of nation building. In response to that need, a library study has been made, using the method of interpretation involving both types, i.e., analysis and synthesis. Results of the study indicate that defining Indonesian literature by basing it on the language used has the implication of creating a counterproductive condition from the point of the function of literature as agent of nation building. The wealth of literary works living and growing among the various regional ethnic groups existing in Indonesia has been insufficiently followed up with cross-literary study that would be supportive to the formation of being Indonesian. Past events indicate the following instead: (1) lack of government attention to regional literary development; (2) insufficient recognition of regional literature people as people of Indonesian literature; and (3) colonial construction concerning Indonesian literature resulting in the occurrence of de-characterization of Indonesian literature as agent of nation building. In order that literature could function as agent of nation building, literary study needs to be reoriented from study of Indonesian literature to study of the literature all over Indonesia.
关键词：function of literature;nation building;the literature all over Indonesia
